Zen Cart or Zen CSS for Regular Site

[Webskipper]

Can I use Zen Cart as a template for my regular site or at least the CSS templates?

I'd like the rest of my site to use the same layout.

Also, how I change the Charset to UTF-8 site wide? Just do a search and replace or is it something deeper?

Thanks in advance.

[kobra]

What is the rest of your site??

Have you looked at expages for additional content pages?

They will have the similar layout

[Webskipper]

Rest of the site is informational pages ModelYacht.org.

Where is expages?

[kobra]

OPPS!! TYPO!

EZPages - admin > tools > ezpages

[Webskipper]

That' what I thought. EZ pages for 400 additional pages?

What about the charset change method, ok do it?

[kobra]

What about the charset change method, ok do it?

What do you expect to gain?

Default is latin-swedish - ISO_8859-1 and should contain all characters you could need that are in UTF-8 and then some

[Webskipper]

Charset change would allow Greek and other languages to display the corret characters. When I edit those files via ftp the get fouled using iso-8859-7 on the Greek language pages.

[kobra]

get fouled using iso-8859-7 on the Greek language pages

The above is not ISO_8859-1 - which is equivalent for practical purposes to UTF-8

Do you have a Greek lang pack installed? and does it require iso-8859-7?

UTF-8 is not iso-8859-7

[Webskipper]

Yes, I did have the Greek language installed I uninstalled due to the crazy character that resulted from FTP edits.

That pack uses ISO_8859-7

A peer recommended that he uses UTF-8 and never ran into a problem.

I did a lot of work translating the pages for my site it and I'd really like to use them.

Do you recommend the UTF contribution?

Thanks.

[kobra]

First BACKUP your Database and store locally where you know where it is.

If a live site - place down for maint.

open a COPY of the DB in an editor that can load large files

Do a search & replace for

CHARSET=latin1

Replace with

CHARSET=UTF8

Save and Import this COPY with your phpmyadmin "Import" function

See this to insure you perform a proper DB backup https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=103